Jason reponded: >Is this Windows XP Professional or Home? You may be using Simple File >Sharing (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304040) which dumbs down the >security permission rules quite a bit.
Pro >Turn it off if you can and you will have a 'Security' tab on the >properties when you right-click on a file or folder. I wouldn't have the slightest on how to do that. I've never had the problem to ever deal with it before. Not sure if it is even a problem now. I'll be running setup shortly, so we'll see. >The reason you need to update your permissions is because Windows ties >permissions to a unique SSID for each user. When you reinstall, even >if you set up the same user names, the SSIDs associated with them are >different. Ah, a hidden thing I never have had to deal with. I wouldn't know how to change ownership permission of Windoze files, since I've never had to do it, nor have I ever seen along the lines of chown. Thanks for the response. I'll report back my update results. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ The ASCII [I've been to Earth. I know where it is. ] \ / Ribbon Campaign [And I'm gonna take us there. Starbuck 3/25/07] X Against Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/ / \ HTML Email -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
